No one turns down gold, even in the imaginary city of Rolldovia. Dice City: All That Glitters is the first expansion for the town building, dice rolling game from AEG. In All That Glitters players gain the resource of gold, provided by twelve gold tokens. As well, the expansion contains forty-eight additional cards that all players to use the gold to strike deals, spruce up pre-existing buildings, and have the option of constructing new types of buildings.

Another in the Lost Legacy series of card games, The Werewolf and the Undying Heart is the newest stand-alone addition to the game. Like the other sets, The Werewolf and the Undying Heart can be played independently of the other expansions. Each deck in this set can also be played solo or combined with each other, depending on the player’s preference. For two to six players and only lasting ten minutes a round, Lost Legacy is one of the easiest to learn, quickest to play card games on the market.

Steve Jackson Games is nothing if not committed to bringing players every possible iteration on products related to Munchkin. With that in mind, the Munchkin Playmat drops this weekend. A valuable tool to help organize any game of Munchkin (and if you’ve played you know all of those cards can get unwieldy), the Munchkin Playmat designates spaces for class, headgear, race, unequipped items, and many other card types in the game. These spots along with a level gauge help to keep players’ multitude of cards ordered and organized.

In the vein of White Wizard Games other popular deck-based card game, Star Realms, the Epic card game receives four booster pack expansions this weekend. Epic Tyrants is made up of four booster pack expansions that contribute thirteen new cards to the game, each themed around a Tyrant character. The four options are Draka’s Rage, Helion’s Deceit, Raxxa’s Revenge, and Markus’ Command.

You’ve heard of the classic board game Operation. Well, Doctor Panic is the next generation relative of that game, a blend of app-based, cooperative, and time trial. Made for families of all-ages, Doctor Panic plays in only twelve minutes! Yes, you and your other players have twelve minutes to complete a variety of medical procedures and clean-up activities. Download the free Doctor Panic app and incorporate it into the game as well.

Over the last few years, Fantasy Flight has grown a variety of games around their elaborate, cyberpunk universe of Android. A spin-off of the popular Netrunner series, Android Mainframe is a completely different take on that universe and game mechanics intended for two to four players. A placement game at it’s heart, Android Mainframe has players assuming the role of a Runner and using various character tiles, linking rods, and various cards to attempt to gain control of various evil corporations’ computer systems by “hacking in.”

For those layabouts still building up slack in the world of Chez Geek, Steve Jackson Games has another way for players to continue to be lazy. The Chez Geek Spring Break expansion can be added to the base game in the form of forty entirely new cards, all themed around traveling for the Spring Break holiday. In addition to those cards, the expansion also contains Event Cards, which are an entirely new element that changes up gameplay.

Cryptozoic has built up quite an empire of property-based deck building games, including DC, The Lord of the Rings, and Street Fighter. Well, this weekend they add another conquest to that list with the Crossover Crisis Deck Building Game. In this version of the game, players are controlling and building decks around popular Cartoon Network shows, like Dexter’s Laboratory, Regular Show, Samurai Jack, and Adventure Time. As always, this version of the game is completely compatible with other Cryptozoic deck builders, so if you want you can have Finn face off with Superman while Frodo waits in the wings.

Say you’re writing your first novel. Or game mastering an RPG for your buddies. Or maybe just killing time with friends around a campfire. No matter the case, Rory’s Story Cubes are designed to randomly generate story ideas and elements to help fire the imagination. Out this weekend are six mini-expansion packs for the series, each with three dice featuring a single theme. For example, the Enchanted box features story elements related to fairytales and fantasy while the Clues box is all mystery related.

A new big box expansion for the popular dungeon crawl board game, Talisman, drops this weekend. Talisman The Cataclysm introduces an entirely new main board to replace the one found in the base game. In addition to the replacement game board, the expansion also contains over 150 extra cards and miniatures that introduce five original characters into the game, including ones inspired by Viking and Indian mythology.

Marvel is in the air as Captain America: Civil War is on the horizon. Understanding their fan base, Steve Jackson has made another coup by acquiring the rights to Marvel‘s popular line of characters in order to release Munchkin Marvel. A new base game for the popular series, Munchkin Marvel uses the same mechanics from the other Munchkin games, but applies the heroes and villains of Marvel to them. You’ll still be fighting monsters and acquiring treasures, but now those monsters will be Thanos, The Red Skull, and the like while you’ll be using Mjolnir or Cap’s shield to take them down.

With the holiday season just beginning in earnest this weekend, it’s time to start thinking about that one important question that everyone raises during the season: can you play Munchkin? Okay, maybe not the most important question, but still valid. Well, Steve Jackson games has made it easier than ever to get into Munchkin with Munchkin Christmas Lite. An inexpensive deck of Christmas themed cards, Christmas Lite has all of the materials for three or four players to learn the basics of Munchkin.

Possibly the greatest Munchkin expansion ever, Munchkin Kittens is on shelves this weekend! Included in this booster expansion are thirty adorable kitty cards illustrated comic artist Katie Cook that can be incorporated into any of the Munchkin base games.

Bottlecap Vikings may seem like a cross between Fallout and the popular television show (which would be pretty great), but, instead, it is a fun, family friendly resource management game. In Bottlecap Vikings you will sail, loot, and plunder your way around a bottlecap shaped game board. Build your village and gain glory until the Valkyries come to claim the fallen across a variable action rondel, two victory conditions, and individual player ability trees.

Styled after 16-byte video games of yore and a pinch of Minecraft, Melee is an army battle game for two to four players. In the world of Melee, the king has died without an heirs to the throne. Each player will control one of four different armies (each sitting astride either a parrot, mouse, pig, or dinosaur), fighting from their own castle, to attain the throne. You will use money and other resources to build your armies and pit them against each other to decide ultimate dominance.

Think Coup or Bang! during WWII and you’ve got Operation F.A.U.S.T., a new deception game from Grey Fox Games. In this highly social game, players will find themselves in occupied France during WWII, tasked with a mission to recover Europe’s most valuable pieces of art before they are looted by Hitler. To win the game you must gather intelligence, locate Europe’s most at risk treasures, and recover them before your opponents. Use your network of spies, double agents, and more to achieve your goals, but take care not to reveal information to others.

Remaining on the field of battle, but updating it to a modern era, Bomb Squad is a cooperative game with high stakes. In Bomb Squad players control members of the Retro City Bomb Squad, and their trusty bomb disposal robots in order to defeat dastardly villains that threaten the world. Help program a robot to navigate buildings, rescue hostages, and defuse bombs in real time. You cannot see your hand of Command cards, so you’ll have to help your partners figure out which cards to play. Using a special timer app, the game plays out in real time, with bombs going off every ten minutes unless you defuse them!

Combining a party game experience with factual trivia, Terra pits players against each other in a competition where being close counts. Faced with world trivia questions like “How long is the Golden Gate Bridge?” or “How many sculptures are on Easter Island?” players will attempt to make educated guesses, marking them with cubes on a slider. If you don’t know the answer, use your opponents knowledge against them by guessing just a little bit less or more than what they do. It can’t hurt, as being closer is the goal.

Aperture Science welcomes players to a board-based cake acquisition enrichment activity, Portal the board game. Yes, Cryptozoic and Valve have adapted the popular Portal video game series into a board gaming experience. Players control test subjects who are attempting to traverse the testing lab, represented by a modular board, using high tech portal guns. Tiles will fall off the board over the course of the game, causing players to leap forward as fast as they can in hopes of not getting caught in a disappearing tile. And at the end: cake! Of course, the cake is a lie, so Cryptozoic has given you an exclusive Steam redemption code for Portal 2 instead.

Fantasy Flight does what the company is best at by remaking and relaunching the classic Warhammer Quest the Adventure Card Game. This card game is a cooperative game of heroic dungeon adventures for one to four players. Players assume the roles of some of the Old World’s most iconic heroes, then venture into the shadows to battle goblins, trolls, orcs, ghouls, ratmen, and other creatures. Can you survive their relentless onslaught? There are only two ways for your quest to end – in death or in glory!

If you’re looking to have a board game filled Fourth of July, here’s the new arrivals for this weekend!

First up, we have the Rumpelstiltskin card game. From AEG, the makers of Love Letter, Rumpelstiltskin uses similar mechanics while having players take on the roles of Fey who have entered into a name-guessing game with the titular character. For two players only, Rumpelstiltskin plays in ten minutes as players attempt to guess their opponent’s secret name while also using magical abilities to make that goal more difficult.

The newest Adventure Pack for the Lord of the Rings LCG is out this weekend! The Wastes of Eriador contains sixty cards for the Angmar Awakened expansion set. The cards provide an entirely new scenario for their heroes can adventure through.

Steve Jackson Games has already released a larger Mars Attacks Dice Game, but now they are following it up with the quick-to-play Mars Attacks: Ten-Minute Takedown dice game. In the game, players each control a martian fleet, flicking dice across the table to gain points. Players flick the dice from their own saucer disk onto other players’ disks, gaining points depending on where they land and which side of the die is facing up.

New Who gets its due with the Ninth Doctor Sourcebook for the Chris Eccleston version of Doctor Who. Like all of the Doctor Who RPG Sourcebooks, the Ninth Doctor volume contains detailed adventures built around each episode of the Ninth Doctor’s tenure. As well, the volume provides stats and playable character information for Rose, Mickey, Jack Harkness, and tons of other companions and villains.

The newest wave of Star Trek Attack Wing ship expansions is out this weekend. Included in the new wave are the USS Pasteur that can reach Warp 13 and is commanded by Captain Beverly Crusher, the USS Dauntless which is camouflaged to resemble and Enterprise, and the Kreechta, a Ferengi O’Kora-class ship.

Finally, Pandemic: State of Emergency is the newest expansion for the popular cooperative game. This expansion adds five new roles and seven new events to complicate the original base game. In addition, there are also Hiterlands Challenge, where the disease spreads from animals to humans, an adjustable difficulty mechanic that uses quarantine zones to slow down the spread of the pandemic, emergency event cards that complicate the game, and the superbug challenge that adds a fifth disease that can not be cured.

The Dungeon Roll Legends Hero Booster Pack #2 provides eight entirely new heroes to be mixed into the popular dungeon crawl dice game. These heroes, however, are far beefier than any of the previous heroes, so make sure to play them against each other or in a situation where other players are looking for a challenge.

Deus is Latin for God, making it a perfect name for the new hand management where players pray to their society’s deities through offerings. Deus begins with players receiving a hand of five cards, randomly featuring one of six colors. Each color represents a resource (military, trade, temples, etc.), which is then used to construct buildings in honor of the gods. These buildings are placed on a variable board (whose dimensions are decided by the number of players) in order to acquire points and gain victory.

The boundaries of the popular Tasty Minstrel Game release, Village, continue to grow. Village: Port is the newest expansion for the game and it is a sizable one. Not only does Port give players the option of boarding a skiff and sailing the seas in order to find buried treasure, but also new life goal cards that allow players to choose career options for their characters.

It’s taken Steve Jackson a bit of time to get another Chez Geek expansion out on the shelves, but, to be fair, the game is about who can be the laziest. Like a slacker cousin to the popular Munchkin franchise, Chez Geek has players earning slack points for doing as little as they can. Slack to the Future, the creatively titled expansion that hits shelves this weekend includes fifty-six new jobs, friends, food, and activities that can be used to acquire “slack” in the game.

While it may not be as insane as Sealab 2021, AquaSphere is still a frantic game of underwater area control. Players compete to collect data regarding the ocean. Every player controls a team of researchers (comprised of a scientist, engineer, robots, and submarines) across to halves of the game board (a lab and headquarters). Gathering knowledge points moves you closer to winning and to do so players must expend actions to observe octopuses, expand your lab, or increase your team’s abilities.

Hanabi, among the most popular cooperative games on the market, gains a deluxe edition this weekend. Deluxe Hanabi plays exactly like the original, with player working together to create a fireworks display. The trick is that each player can see everyone but their own fireworks, requiring everyone to describe and hint at what each other has. The Deluxe Hanabi edition replaces the standard cards with Mahjong tiles, reflecting the Eastern influence and setting of the game.

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